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dirty bomb
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dirty bomb
n
(Military) Informal a bomb made from nuclear waste combined with conventional explosives that is capable of spreading radioactive material over a very wide area
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Noun1.dirty bomb - an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination
A-bomb, atom bomb, atomic bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb - a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)


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Not totally black Sunday: Homeland Security says that the rumors of dirty bombs being planted for National Football League games cannot be substantiated.
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GAO investigators created fake Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) documents to purchase radioactive materials from commercial suppliers, then attempted to bring in enough material to build two dirty bombs.
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The number of dirty bombs we face," he predicts, "will be determined by how we deal with the first.
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